Poor Madsen’s Almanack
Based on shrewd observation of likely weather patterns and early budding of snowdrops and Indian maize, Madsen has been able to describe the events of 2026 as they actually happened.
Things run politically become political
It seems odd to us that we’ve got to point this out to an actual adult
The likely impact of the new-self-fertilizing-wheat
Scientists at University of California, Davis have used gene-editing (via CRISPR) to alter wheat so that it produces more of a naturally occurring compound, a flavone called apigenin
If flytipping is caused by landfill tax then to stop flytipping we should….
To return, as with the dog to his reworked breakfast, to a favourite point of ours.
Peronism wasn’t working, therefore….
The Guardian reports on how children are living on the rubbish dumps in Argentina.
This does seem most sensible to us
Yet all governments in the past century have wished for faster growth and have still found the need for regional assistance.
The significance of the Granite Act
Preston Byrne, a Legal Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, who does our legal representation in the US, is proposing the GRANITE Act (Guaranteeing Rights Against Novel International Tyranny & Extortion).
NESO discovers Bill Nordhaus
Given that they did actually award the Nobel to Bill Nordhaus specifically for his work on climate change it’s nice to see some fraction of our ruling class catch up.
Bypassing the Aussie ban on under-16s
Many under-16s in Australia might try to bypass the new social-media ban under which, from 10 December 2025, all major social-media platforms must prevent Australians under 16 from holding accounts.
The latest whining about inequality
As we’ve pointed out before our interest is in people having more.
The new mercantilism
Next March will see the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s ‘Wealth of Nations,’ the book that rejected mercantilism and created the study of economics.
The logic doesn’t work here
Just to be clear about our basic stance here - we don’t care about fossil fuels.